. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 726 HELIPTEBUM HELLEBORUS kinds are annual herbs (or grown as such), of easiest cultivation in any garden soil. Pis. mostly perfect, with 5-toothed open corollas: akenes woolly, bearing a pap- pus of many plumose bristles: involucre glabrous, obo- vate or top-shaped, silvery or rose-colored: plants mostly glabr
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 726 HELIPTEBUM HELLEBORUS kinds are annual herbs (or grown as such), of easiest cultivation in any garden soil. Pis. mostly perfect, with 5-toothed open corollas: akenes woolly, bearing a pap- pus of many plumose bristles: involucre glabrous, obo- vate or top-shaped, silvery or rose-colored: plants mostly glabrous. This and Helicbrysum are amongst the most important of everlasting flowers. A. Heads large, manij-floicered. B. Lvs, broad. Minglesii, Muell. {Hhoddnilie Manglesiijljiiid]. Hoc- cdrdia Mdnglesii, Voss). Fig. 1033. Neat glaucous an- nual, 12-18 in. tall, with very slender, long pedicels, bearing pretty nodding heads: lvs. thin, oval or elliptic, clasping: involucre silvery-chaffy, the ray florets origi- nally clear, handsome pink, but now varying to white (B. alba, Hort.), and to dark red {H. atrosaiiguUiea, Drumm.). Var. macul^tum (i?. »i«c?d(:>/ff, Drumm. Boc- cdrdia Mdnglesii, var. mncnldta, Voss), is usually larger,with shorter lvs. and involucre flecked with red: rays pink or white. Austral. 20:1703. —A charm- ing plant, and one of the few everlastings which retains much of its grace and beauty after being dried. There are double-fld. forms, i. e., those with all or nearly all the florets ligulate. Excellent also for pot culture. Seeds of the mixed vars. are sometimes sold under the name .Rhodanthe varins. j^, EB. Lvs. linear. rdseum, Benth. (Aero- cUnium rdseuni. Hook. Mocedrdia rdsea, Voss). Pig. 1034. Annual, 1-2 ft. high, glabrous, with many strict simple branches from the crown, each stem terminated by one large head: lvs. numerous, al- ternate, small and linear: rays many, pointed, bright. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page
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